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Looking for a good horror movie to start 2025? The Damned starring Odessa Young should be on your to-watch list. As a slow burner of a horror movie, it creates a suffocating atmosphere full of dread based on Nordic folklore. It surrounds Eva, a young widow in the 19th century who happens to be the…
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It’s a fact of life that you’re going to be disappointed. It just can’t be helped. Whether it’s soggy leftover pizza in the refrigerator for dinner yet again, not making enough salary to fuel your wild imaginative lifestyle, or purchasing a large scented candle only to find that it doesn’t smell as you’d expect, but…
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The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea talks about a true story in the early 2000s regarding a group of illegal “entrants” who tried their luck crossing the Mexican border into the United States and how horribly the mission went for many of them. The book became a national bestseller and even a Pulitzer finalist.…
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With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge is a memoir and recounting of the World War II battles at Peleliu and Okinawa Island. Private First Class E.B. Sledge, aka “Sledgehammer,” initially wanted to write the memoir to recount his hellish days of war for his family members only. He was then urged to publish the…
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RBG! RBG! Say it with me…RBG! Revolutionary but Gangsta! Back in the days, after the shutdown of Napster but prior to streaming services like Spotify, purchasing physical music CDs was actually a thing. Sure, this may give away my age a bit, but who cares, right? Hip hop duo Dead Prez was definitely on my…
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And there it is. It didn’t take long. The first movie I’ve encountered in the year 2025 that I instantly knew would be horrendously horrible within the first 5-10 minutes. 🤣 Personally, I’m not an avid werewolf fan. However, I do appreciate the lore it can bring. I can’t even remember the last good werewolf…
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WHAT A SERIES! I’m so damn glad I gave Creature Commandos a chance. I had my doubts at first, but am I glad I watched it. It’s been a while since I had this much fun with a DC Universe animation. I had watched both Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of The Watchmen animation, and…
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All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker is a literary psychological thriller novel that deals with one man’s lifelong obsession to find a girl. Through it all, this novel explores romance, heartache, sadness, horror, personal loss and most of all, friendship. Where does one even begin to review this novel? Is this a…
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If you’re looking for a good Korean action thriller, The Yellow Sea just might fit the bill. It’s a bit dated now, coming in from 2010, but once again, if you’re just wanting some good ol’ classic action flick, especially one with a lot of machete-hacking scenes, this is going to feel right at home.…
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang goes over the last few decades of China’s last dynasty, The Great Qing. Focusing squarely on the Empress Dowager Cixi, it covers the early days of her life to how she became the de facto ruler of China despite all odds. All roads…
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